Death Quotes — page 6

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,—Independence now and Independence forever.

Death comes in its own time, in its own way. Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.

Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, …

Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need of some imperishable bliss. "Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfilment to our dreams And our desires.

Against slavery all right thinkers revolt, and though torture be the price of resistance, torture must be dared: though the only road to freedom lie through the gates of death, those gates must be passed; for freedom is indispensable.

As I looked, horror struck, from one death's head to another, I was affected by a singular hallucination. Like a wavering translucent spirit face superimposed upon each of these brutish masks I saw the ideal, the possible face that would …

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

all love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

That's the state to live and die in!...R-r-rich!

The bitter, yet merciful, lesson which death teaches us is to distinguish the gold from the tinsel, the true values from the worthless chaff.

I could bear to suffer... so many have suffered. But why must it be like this? I have not deserved it. I have been true in friendship; I have faithfully nursed others in sickness... Why must I die like this, alone with my mortal enemy?

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!

A State of Mind. Woke up perhaps at 3. Oh its beginning it coming – the horror – physically like a painful wave swelling about the heart – tossing me up. I'm unhappy unhappy! Down – God, I wish I were dead.

If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

I wish sir, you would practise this without me. I can’t stay dying here all night. O Lord, Sir—when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

You may roughly divide the nations of the world as the living and the dying.

the idea of wholesale shifts is for various reasons impracticable and indeed undesirable. Most of those who attempt to, sell too late and buy too late, and do both too often, incurring heavy expenses and developing too unsettled and …

A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.

I shall be like that tree; I shall die from the top.